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He talked to us with an eloquence peculiarly his own, and explained with clearness and precision the importance of pursuing the line of conduct he had adopted, never contradicting us in direct terms, but controverted our opinions so astutely that we had not a single word to offer in reply, and retired convinced that he was in the right and that we were manifestly in the wrong."
I doubt if any company in the world, from the Greeks down through Machiavelli to the present moment, has ever been of a subtlety adequate to conceal from an observant person entering a room the fact that he has been the subject of their conversation. This company, at any rate, did not conceal it from me. Not even when the upcountry bride astutely greeted me with:
Mayward candidly. "I suppose it's all right, if she does it from a sense of duty, as you say," he suggested. "Oh, yes, she's all right. And she's just as much of a girl as anybody; though she don't know it," Mrs. Maynard added astutely. "Why would n't she come with us? Were you afraid to ask her?" "She said she was n't a good sailor. Perhaps she thought we were too young.
And does he not at the same time extend his Imperial protection over believers of every creed? The truth is that the Hohenzollerns have never been the champions of Protestantism, but have astutely and consistently exploited it for their own purposes.
"There's something back of it all," said Alicia, astutely. "This revered uncle of ours, Bernie, has something up his sleeve." "I think so, too," said Dotty. "He scrutinises us all so closely, when he thinks we're not looking. But I, for one, am quite willing to put up with these evenings for the sake of the fun we have in the daytime." "I should say so!" agreed Dolly.
"He asked papa if it was true that you were going to this afternoon?" "And what were you doing?" Dr. Galbraith asked astutely. "We were in the drawing room," Angelica answered, "trying to find out from a lady why she tied herself up so tight in the middle." "And so you came off here to see?" "Yes," said Diavolo. "We wanted to catch you at it." "You little brute, misbegotten by the " Dr.
Rattazzi yielded, and the king, though still remembering with bitter feelings the scene at Villafranca, sacrificed his pride to his patriotism. Cavour did not like the idea of serving under Rattazzi, but he agreed to accept the post in order to prevent an antagonism which would have proved fatal to Italy. Napoleon astutely uttered no word of protest.
"When I goes a-huntin' up yander ter Pine Lick, they is mighty perlite ter me. They ain't never done nothin' agin me, ez I knows on." Then, after a pause of deep cogitation, he added, "Nor hev they said nothin' agin me, nuther." "They ain't done nothin' agin me," reiterated Jacob astutely, "nor said nothin' nuther none of 'em."
Like the scent of a wild beast, it had a certain defined track which I followed astutely, eventually coming to a full stop in front of a wall of rock. I then perceived by the aid of a few fitful rays of suppressed light, which at intervals struggled successfully through a black bank of clouds, the yawning mouth of a big cavern, from the roof of which hung innumerable stalactites.
"'Tell his highness, she said to Molinari, 'that I will come, and that he will find me as gentle as a lamb and as good as an angel. "This is the way in which the connection began, and she fathomed his character so astutely that she maintained her conquest as much with ill-treatment and severity as with her favours." Such was the tale of the hapless Madame Schizza.
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